Background
I use chrome custom search engines very often (i wrote a post about how to copy search engines from one profile to another here).
Problem
I recently switched from github to gitlab, and so i have like 50 custom search engines that began with something like github.com/repo_name
that i know what to change to something like gitlab.com/repo_name
..
I know that the custom search engines are stored inside
~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Profile/Web Data
and according to my other post, if i simply copied and pasted that between profiles, things would work fine.. however if i go inside that web data file now (which is an sqlite file) and manually replace the strings, and copy it back.. it simply gets overwritten by the original search engines.. any idea how to fix this?